The Poetical Works, Volume III
Wordsworth continued: "The Solitary Reaper", the "Ode: Intimations of Immortality", the later sonnets.
Measured across the book
Across its 10,629 lines, 93% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 93% to 93%). Alliteration runs at 1.01 times what shuffling the words would give (0.28 observed against 0.27 expected). 15% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
"She Was a Phantom of Delight"iambic tetrameter · AABBCCDDEE · 30 lines"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"iambic tetrameter · ABABCC · 26 lines"Grasmere, Nov. 4iambic tetrameter · 11 linesThe Affliction of Margaretiambic tetrameter · ABABCCC · 77 linesThe Forsakeniambic tetrameter · ABABCCC · 14 linesA Pastoral Balladanapaestic tetrameter · ABAB · 40 linesOn Being Reminded That She Was a Month Old That Day, September 16iambic tetrameter · 205 linesThe Small Celandineiambic pentameter · ABAB · 24 linesAt Applethwaite, Near Keswickiambic pentameter · AABB · 14 linesVaudracour and Juliaiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 310 linesReprinted from 'the Friend'iambic pentameter · unrhymed · 40 linesOde to Dutyiambic tetrameter · 57 linesTo a Sky-Larktrochaic pentameter · AABB · 33 linesFidelityiambic tetrameter · 67 linesIncident Characteristic of a Favourite Dogtrochaic tetrameter · 40 linesTribute to the Memory of the Same Dogiambic pentameter · 36 linesTo the Daisy (#4)iambic tetrameter · AABCCCB · 70 linesElegiac Stanzasiambic pentameter · ABAB · 60 linesH. D. R"trochaic octameter · unrhymed · 6 lines"My Dear Miss Wordsworth,iambic tetrameter · AABB · 16 lines"When, to the Attractions of the Busy World"iambic pentameter · unrhymed · 110 linesThe Cottager to Her Infantiambic tetrameter · AABB · 10 linesCanto Firstiambic tetrameter · AABB · 277 linesCanto Secondiambic tetrameter · AABB · 166 linesCanto Thirdiambic tetrameter · AABB · 143 linesCanto Fourthiambic tetrameter · AABB · 269 linesPoem IIIiambic tetrameter · AABB · 185 linesTo William Wordsworthiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 100 linesBook First: Introduction.—Childhood and School-Timeiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 649 linesBook Second: SCHOOL-TIME—continuediambic pentameter · unrhymed · 479 linesBook Third: Residence at Cambridgeiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 640 linesBook Fourth: Summer Vacationiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 471 linesBook Fifth: Booksiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 607 linesBook Sixth: Cambridge and the Alpsiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 780 linesBook Seventh: Residence in Londoniambic pentameter · unrhymed · 771 linesBook Eight: Retrospect—Love of Nature Leading to Love of Maniambic pentameter · unrhymed · 689 linesBook Ninth: Residence in Franceiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 588 linesBook Tenth: Residence in France—'Continued'iambic pentameter · unrhymed · 607 linesBook Eleventh: FRANCE—concludediambic pentameter · unrhymed · 474 linesBook Twelfth: Imagination and Taste, How Impaired and Restorediambic pentameter · unrhymed · 336 linesBook Thirteenth: Imagination and Taste, How Impaired and Restored—Concludediambic pentameter · unrhymed · 378 linesBook Fourteenth: Conclusioniambic pentameter · unrhymed · 456 linesPoem Iiambic pentameter · 14 linesFrom the Same IIiambic pentameter · AABB · 14 linesFrom the Same. to the Supreme Being IIIiambic pentameter · AABB · 14 linesSonnet LXXXIXiambic pentameter · 22 lines"Poems on the Naming of Places"iambic pentameter · 18 linesLinesiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 129 linesLe Géneral De Brigade Beaupuyunrhymed · 13 lines
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